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phrontist
Vertical text?
Feb 12th, 2010, 5:13am  
How can I display text flowing vertically? That is to say...

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PhiLho 
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #1 - Feb 12th, 2010, 5:27am  
By displaying the letters one by one with proper positioning.
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Quark
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #2 - Feb 12th, 2010, 12:45pm  
Like This

Code:
String message;
PFont font;

void setup(){
  size(200,200);
  font = createFont("Arial",12);
  textFont(font);
  message = "Like This";
  background(0);
  stroke(255); 
  for(int i = 1; i <= message.length(); i++){
    text(message.substring(i-1,i), 20, 20 + i *18);
  }
}
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Leo Ramos
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #3 - Feb 13th, 2010, 11:05am  
How can this code also be applied to more than one character per line...

Can I somehow define it to show ...say two characters at a time per line?
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TfGuy44
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #4 - Feb 13th, 2010, 11:19am  
Well yeah. You'd just have to change the looping conditions and which substring it's printing. It might be helpful if you made sure your string's length was a multiple of how many characters you wanted on each line...
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almo136
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #5 - Feb 13th, 2010, 2:32pm  
Is it possible to display the letters vertically as well.  Ie.  like the original post except each letter would be rotated 90 degrees clockwise?

Thanks!
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PhiLho 
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #6 - Feb 14th, 2010, 1:28am  
Just use rotate().
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DanaB
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #7 - Mar 25th, 2010, 6:33pm  
I tried putting rotate in just in front of text but it just made the text disappear. Any ideas? The code is below.

 textFont (labelFont);
 textAlign(LEFT, TOP);
 text(xLabel[0], Xposition, GraphBottom+10);
 rotate(PI/3.0);
 text(xLabel[1], Xposition2, GraphBottom + 10);

The first label is there, but the second after the rotation is gone.
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cr_davis
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #8 - Mar 25th, 2010, 9:20pm  
bjorn?
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PhiLho 
Re: Vertical text?
Reply #9 - Mar 26th, 2010, 2:02am  
In general, rotate() must be used along with translate() to reposition the coordinates on screen.
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